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A Thanksgiving Dream 

A ONE ACT PLAY FOR 
PRIMARY CHILDREN 



By 
EFFA E. PRESTON 




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A Thanksgiving Dream 



A One Act Play for 
Primary Children 



By EFFA E. PRESTON 



PAINE PUBLISHING COMPANY 

DAYTON, OHIO 



A Thanksgiving Dream '^^i^^o^ 

CHARACTEEiS 
Jack — ^A small boy. 

PiLGKiM Maids — Five girls in colonial costume. 

Indians — Two boys in Indian costume. 

Pumpkins — Any number small boys and .girls having huge paper 
pumpkins pinned on them. 

TuEKEYS — Five children with paper turkeys pinned on. them. 

Goblins — Any number of small boys wearing hideous false faces. 

After each group has spoken it goes off stage. After Jack's last 
speech he leaves stage and all the others return and sing the closing 
song. 

If desired the costuming may be elaborate, but it is not at all 
necessary. 



Copyright, 1922, by 
L. M. Paine 



SEP 29 '22 

©CU687053 



JACK: 



All: 



First : 



Second 



Third : 



A Thanksgiving Dream 

I bad the grandest dinner — 

Pudding and cake and pie — 
Turkey and mashed potato 

Ice cream — it makes me sigh 
To think that anything was left 

Of all that dandy meal, 
But I couldn't eat another bite 

So very full I feel. 
I guess I'll take a nap till supper time. 

[Yawns, stretches, lies down and sleeps.] 

Enter Pilgrim Maids. 

We're Pilgrim Maids of long ago 
When all this world was new, 

And stories of that far off time' 
We shall relate tio you. 

Our fathers came from England hier© 

Across the stormy sea, 
And many hardships they endured 
To gain their liberty. 

The Indians were our trusty friends 
And taught us many things — 

To plow — to plknt — ^^to fish — to hunt — 
And what each season brings. 

A harvest bountiful we gleaned 

In 1622 
And called the Indians tO' a feast. 

Such fun you never knew. 
This was the first Thanksgiving Day — 

A day of earnest praise 
For peace and plenty granted us 

After our weary days. 



4 a thanksgiving dream 

Fourth : 

W'hen I was a little, little girl 

My parents went away 
And left me to mind the babies. 

An Indian came that day 
And I pushed the frightened babies 

Who were playing on the fl'oor 
Under two big brass kettles. 

They both began to roar. 
It scared the Indians very much 

When he saw the kettles run 
And he loudly roared 'Kettles alive" 

And threw away his gun. 
I shot him as he ran away, 

They found him just outside. 
I kept the kettles many years 

And told the tale with pride. 



Fifth 



My sister and I scared the Indians away 

One night many long years ago 
By changing some pumpkins to Jack- 
Lanterns bright 

And waving them to and fro. 
In the darkness they thought they were 
ghosts 

And yelling in fright and alarm 
Tliey fled to the forest as fast as they could — 

So 'Our Jack-Lanterns saved us from harm. 

Enter Indians. 
Together : 

I'm Massoit. 
I'm Samoset. 



First 



The first Thanksgiving Day 

We feasted with the Pilgrim folks 
And jolly games did play. 



A THANKSGIVING DREAM 



Second : 



We brought th,em turkeys, oysters, deer, 

And stayed to eat them all, 
And Elder Brewster said we'd have 

Thanksgiving Day each fall. 

Enter Pumpkins. 



All: 



We're the pumpkins your family made into pies 
And we really must say that a boy of your size 
Ought to be so ashamed of himself — for you ate 
Till there wasn't a piece of pie left on the plate. 
We hope you have a stomach ache — an awful 
stomach ache. 



All: 



First : 



Second 



JACK: 

Third : 



Enter Turkeys. 

Gobble, gobble, gobble. 

Turkeys sad are we. 
This glad Thanksgiving season 

Does not with us agree. 



Boys talk about Thanksgiving and make 
an awful fuss^ — 
The feast that is so fine for them is 
always death for us. 



This boy looks nice and tender, friends — 
he's plump as plump can be. 
Let's have a feast ourselves today and 
eat him fricassee. 



No-no-don 't eat me — don't I beg — 
Why not? — You find us tasty. 



g A THANKSGIVING DREAM 

JACK : ' 

Don't eat me — think what that would mean, 
Oh, please don't be so hasty. 

Fourth : 

Don 't listen to his tale of woe^ — our friends 
all gobbled loudly. 
His father just chopped off their heads 
and ate them up so proudly. 



Fifth : 



Oh, let him go. I can't be cruel. Yes, let 
him go. Don't cry. 



Second : 

Yon cliicken-hearted turkeys, you'll be 
sorry by and by. 



ALL: 



JACK: 

First : 

Second 



Enier Goblins. 

"We are the Thanksgiving Goblins. 

We'll get you unless you take care. 
We're after such greedy young people 

So youngster you'd better beware. 
We'll give you such pains in your tummy 

You'll wriggle from sunset till morn, 
We'll pinch you and poke you and pound 
yon— _ 

You'll wish you had never been bom. 



Please don't hurt me. 



After all that dinner he doesn't want to 
be hurt. 



Tell us what you ate. 



A THANKSGIVING DREAM 7 

JACK; 

I didn't eat much. — just some turkey — 
A leg — and the back — and the wing — 

Potatoes and turnips and cranberry sauce, 
Ice cream, cake, pie, CYerything. 

Third Goblin : 

Come, brothers, let's pinch him. 

[They gather round Jack and pinch him — he screams.] 
Mother [calling] : Jack — Jack. 

Goblins run. Jack awakes — ruhs eyes, yawns. 

JACK : 

I must have been sleeping — I dreiame^d 
funny things 
About goblins and turkeys, and pies, 
And Pilgrims, and Indians, and all sorts 
of things, 
They were right here in front of my eyes. 
I hope that my supper is ready — I'm 
hungry as hungry can be 
I think I dreamed that I ate too much — 
But I won't let a dream worry me. 

[He leaves stage in answer to his mother's calls and the 

Pilgrim Maids, Indians, Pumpkins, Turkeys and Goblins 
return in the order named, form group and sing] : 

Song— Air: OLD BLACK JOE 

1. 

We 've come to warn all the greedy girls and boys. 
Heed our advice though your feelings it annoys. 
Don't be like Jack o'er the Gobble-uns and pies 
And turkeys, too, will soon appear before your eyes. 



g A THANKSGIVING DREAM 

Chorus : 

Be careful — be careful — 
Lis'ten well to what we say 

And ^ard your appetite this glad Thanksgiving 
Day. 

2. 

We are but dreams, alas, tis all too true, 

When you awake we must vanish far from view. 

But aches and pains we will bring you while we 

may 
If you are greedy and devour our friends today. 

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